Sustainable Food Systems - Slow Food International

Good Food Good Farming: The Slow Food Network in Action

31 October 2023

For the sixth year in a row, Slow Food joined the European Days of Action for Good Food Good Farming, which took place across Europe throughout October. Every year, thousands of citizens and hundreds of organizations host disco soups, farm visits and cooking events; join protests and harvests; and attend panel discussions, film screenings, and many more events in their local communities. …

To the European Commission: We Want A Strong Sustainable Food Systems Law, Now.

28 June 2023

More and more voices are rising across Europe to demand the EU for sustainable, healthy and affordable food. The EU Sustainable Food Systems Law (SFS Law) provides a unique opportunity to achieve this goal, but lobby pressure threatens to derail it. The EU Food Policy Coalition and the Good Food Good Farming movement have been …

The ‘Good Food Good Farming’ Movement Campaigns for a Better EU Food System

30 May 2023

The Good Food Good Farming (GFGF) movement, of which Slow Food is an active member, is launching a campaign to defend and promote the urgent need for Europe to transition towards sustainable food systems. Next September, the European Commission will propose a Sustainable Food systems Law, which could be a game-changer for the future of European …

Slow Food’s Recipe for Good, Clean and Fair Food Systems

17 May 2023

As the European Commission is gearing up for the release of its legislative proposal on a “Sustainable Food Systems Law” (expected next September), Slow Food released a new position paper to share its vision on how to swiftly create resilient systems for sustainable and healthy food. We sum it up for you in this article. …

Carlo Petrini and Olivier de Schutter Discuss the Future of Food in Europe

7 April 2022 Alice Poiron

On March 31, Slow Food Europe and IPES-Food hosted their first in-person event in Brussels since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out: a dialogue between Carlo Petrini, president of Slow Food, and Olivier de Schutter, co-chair of IPES-Food: “COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and rising food prices: how can we transform food systems in the face of constant …

How Can Sustainable Food Procurement Help Reshaping Food Systems?

18 February 2022 Francisca Feiteira

Public food procurement — the process of providing food to public canteens, determines what thousands of people eat every day across Europe. Yet, its great power for the transformation of our food systems remains mostly untapped. Last week, Slow Food and other member organizations of the EU Food Policy Coalition published their common policy recommendations …

Why Attacks Against the EU Farm to Fork Strategy Completely Miss the Point

9 February 2022 Alice Poiron

Since its release, the EU Farm to Fork Strategy has been repeatedly attacked and questioned by industrial farm lobbies, a number of conservative MEPs, and agri-business firms, which the publication of two controversial “impact studies” has only kept fueling. But what they always omit to say, is that these studies are partial and incomplete. Two …

Choosing Good Food should not be this Complicated – a Vision for Improving EU Food Environments

13 October 2021 Madeleine Coste & Frank Mechielsen

[Originally published in Arc2020] The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy won’t be realised unless policy goes beyond voluntary measures to gear food environments to promote truly sustainable diets. Participants in the EU Food Policy Coalition share their vision for improving food environments. Op-ed by Frank Mechielsen from Feedback Global and Madeleine Coste from Slow Food Europe. Food environments are …

European Cities Pave the Way for Healthy, Fair and Sustainable Food Systems

13 May 2021

Slow Food is a proud partner of the Food Trails project, a four-year initiative that will enable the design of pilot activities in 11 European cities in order to help them co-create urban food policy. The goal is to empower communities, promote a zero-waste use of resources, promote environmentally friendly behavior change and ensure people have healthy …

Nature Needs Agroecology

12 May 2021 Francesco Sottile

Francesco Sottile, agronomist and member of Slow Food Italy’s Executive Board, comments on the paradoxes between the urgent need for sustainable agriculture, and the reality of what is happening in negotiations rooms and in the fields. This is without doubt a complex period for the planet’s agriculture, a period in which the hiatus between what …